Gai Yi speaks extremely straightforwardly, and he is also the temper of a military man.

Hearing this, the seed master shook his head and said, "Let's screen it first, and the old and weak will be eliminated and left to practice." ”

"Alas... Xianggong, with all due respect, will say bluntly, among these tens of thousands of people, there are a few young and strong. It's better to recruit good families to practice again. Gai Yi said. It is also Gai Yiduo in the northwest and does not know about Gyeonggi. It is not difficult to recruit troops in the northwest, but it is in Tokyo, and who will be a soldier unless it is a year of great disaster.

For example, at this time, the Yellow River burst its banks, and it was only necessary to raise the recruitment flag, and hundreds of thousands of troops would not be a problem, which was also the main recruitment method in the Northern Song Dynasty. However, the Yellow River does not flood at this time, and this year's spring rain is enough. In this year, who would want to tattoo big words on their faces to become soldiers.

The seed master naturally understands this, but he is helpless, so he just shook his head and said: "Let's do this first, and if you can keep a few of them, practice first." ”

Gai Yi shook his head and didn't answer, he could only do what he was told. Gai Yizu has been a soldier under the command of the seed family for several generations, and there is no need to say much about the respect for the cultivation master.

Gai Yi walked under the platform, but the planter suddenly remembered something again, and said, "Wait, I'll ask you if I have something." ”

Gai Yi stopped, turned back a few steps and stood still.

"You're from Huaixi, how is the war in Huaixi?" Seed Master Dao asked. I already have some plans in my heart.

When Gai Yi heard this, he frowned, and he didn't know whether to talk about some things, so he replied: "The minister asked, and the last general should have known everything." However, the princes of Tokyo could not tolerate the strength of the Western army, and it was helpless to turn the princes. ”

After hearing this, the seed master didn't know what was wrong, and asked again: "You said bluntly that the imperial court's attitude towards the Western Army naturally understands." ”

Gai Yi nodded, didn't think much about it, and just said: "Bandits, naturally, it's not a problem." Wang Qing raised an army of 80,000, but it was also scattered for a while. Now the prince besieged Wanzhou City, but did not attack the city. Alas... ”

Seed Master Dao blurted out, "Why?" ”

As soon as the words came out, he already understood it in his heart, and he sighed.

I only heard Gai Yi reply: "There are 40,000 Western troops, and there are also tens of thousands of troops in Qin Fengxi River Lanhuang, and the imperial court has not paid food and salary for more than a year. This is nothing more than fighting for a bite to eat for the brothers. Helpless, helpless... ”

As a middle and high-ranking general, Gai Yi is very clear about these things. These things can be sought, Liu Zhengyan, Yang Keshi and others have even talked about it a few times.

When the planter heard this, he opened his mouth and said: "If you raise a thief like this, you should have trouble." How can you not know that you can ask for it... ”

"Xianggong rest assured, Xianggong divided the soldiers and horses, Xiao Liu Xianggong went to Jingnan, and General Yang went to Yun'an. In this way, the thieves can be divided, leaving only some large cities to besiege. He waited for the court's food and salary, and also ensured that the brothers had a subsistence errand. Gai Yi's tone was also extremely helpless, which was one of the reasons why Gai Yi wanted to wait until his mother died and then go to Hebei.

Gai Yi really doesn't want to use the martial arts taught by his master, but in the future, he can only walk the green forests and rivers and lakes.

The seed master also understands the joints in his heart, and he also understands the truth. Now that the Western Army can be the master, it can't tolerate what the Planter Dao says, and the Planter Dao has a lot of guilt in his heart for the Western Army.

In this way, the seed master Dao no longer talked about this matter, and asked: "Now that Huaixi is in turmoil, if you go to Huaixi to recruit troops, is it feasible at this time?" ”

Gai Yi was stunned when he heard this, and thought about it in his heart, but he didn't know if it was feasible, so he only said: "In the land of Huaixi, there are also many displaced people. If you recruit soldiers, you don't need to go to Huaixi, you can go to Huainan at the same time, and most of the Huaixi refugees go to Huainan. Emperor Taishang is in Huainan Haozhou (Fengyang). ”

When the seed master heard the words "Emperor Taishang", his brows furrowed again, so he stopped saying nothing and waved his hand to signal Gai Yi to go down. But there is a dilemma in my heart, this emperor and the emperor are really a troublesome thing. If you go to Huainan to recruit displaced people as soldiers, you will inevitably have to face the Emperor Zhao Ji, then this matter is not so simple.

Gai Yi saw the gesture of the seed master, and bowed: "Xianggong take care of your body." ”

After speaking, Gai Yi turned around and got off the stage and began to arrange the screening of soldiers. But it was the last word, and Gai Yi couldn't bear it in his heart, and it was really sad to see the current appearance of the master.

Above the Huaishui, more than a dozen huge sailing ships are heading north, and the ships are transporting Huashigang. Outline, bulk cargo also.

Zhu Mian personally transported this batch of Huashigang north to Bianliang, starting from Taihu Lake, entering the Yangtze River, entering Huaishui, and then entering Bianshui. So straight to the outside of Bianliang City.

Zhao Huan obviously has no interest in Huashigang, this batch of Huashigang may be the last batch of Huashigang in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is also Zhao Huan's means to trick Zhu Mian into Beijing.

Zhu Mian went, still thinking about the addition of officials to the knighthood. But they did not know that a great calamity was coming. Exiled for thousands of miles and then beheaded. The method of killing literati in the Great Song Dynasty was always like this, never killing scholars and doctors on the surface, but it was not really not to kill. But at least the emperor's sentences were mostly derogatory and exiled.

In Hejian Mansion, a group of scholars walked out of the examination room. But there were many who were indignant.

"Insult Sven, insult Sven...

"I waited hard to read the books of the sages, but I was asked to wait for such a question to be answered, which is ridiculous and deceitful."

"Isn't that ridiculous? In the question, I was asked about the pace counting, thousands of steps, enough for me to count, and then I also counted until it was dark, what else to test? Isn't it a pastime for me to wait? ”

It turned out that the reason why these people were angry was that there was a problem with the topic that Zheng Zhi personally came up with. He even asked these people who read the books of the sages some of the math problems of later elementary school students, saying that the first person walked 1,500 steps per quarter of an hour, and the latter person walked 2,000 steps every quarter of an hour. The person in front walks first for a moment, and asks the person behind how long it will take to catch up with the person in front.

This kind of question is not difficult, and it is not difficult to find a person who is a shopkeeper on the street to answer, and most of them are not a problem. However, most of these people who read the books of the sages do not know how to solve the problem, that is, the solution is too simple, and the process is more cumbersome, and it takes a lot of time to waste. Of course, there are some smart ones who use other methods to solve the problem, which is not a problem.

Among them, there are many such tests of basic logic. But it was these scholars who felt that they had been insulted, and they actually took such meaningless things. Instead of taking more exams of the teachings of sages, poetry and classics, and gentlemen are people.

These people also knew that the questions of the exam in Hejian were different, and they knew that they did not test poetry and scriptures. I just thought that Yan Wang had reduced the difficulty of the exam and made the exam easier. But I don't know that it turns out that these non-marginal things are examined, but most of these non-marginal things are what they can't do. In this way, for many people, it is really a waste of running hundreds of miles, and spending so much money in vain.

"Let's go, go to the government office, find Li Gang to come out and give an explanation, how can there be such a method of selecting officials in the world, so I heard that Li Gang is also a jinshi and first, so I asked him how he came up with this kind of question to test me."

"It's extreme, it's extreme, so I went to the government office, and I must ask for an explanation."

"Let's go, let's go together, and ask him to reopen the exam, how can you entertain me so much."

When literati get together, they are not afraid of heaven and earth, they dare to speak out, and they dare to attack the government. This kind of thing happened a lot in the Great Song Dynasty. At this time, there was a man named Chen Dong among the Taixue in Tokyo, who was the best at doing this kind of thing in history. In addition to Cai Jing, Tong Guan and other six thieves, Chen Dong contributed a lot, and was later killed by Huang Qianshan.

In the midst of the excitement of the crowd, hundreds of scholars gathered in one place, and they asked the government to go to Li Gang to ask for an explanation.

But there were also people who looked at these people and were angry, and they went back to the inn in a good mood. Some people don't succeed, and naturally some people succeed.

These people went all the way to the Hejian Mansion, some went to beat the drums, and some raised their arms and shouted. It also attracts pedestrians to watch and live.

"Tell Li Gang to come out...

"Come out, wait for me to give an explanation, I waited hundreds of miles to come to Dehe to take the exam, but I was humiliated by your pastime, how can this be reasonable."

"Li Gang, come out!"

The messenger who guarded the door had already reported inside. In a moment, a soldier walked out of the yamen, with dozens of soldiers. Seeing that he couldn't stop shouting left and right, his face was angry, and he shouted: "Shut up Lao Tzu, what kind of system is it to shout and shout, how dare you call the name of the political envoy of the Yan Wangfu!" ”

A man walked out of the crowd and shouted, "Is there a place for you to speak?" and went in and called Li Gang out, and the scholars from all over the country rushed to the river to take the exam, which is not a hard study of the scriptures and a belly full of poetry and books. And ask him why he amuses us so much. ”

"Bold!" When the soldier heard this, he was furious, took off the long knife at his waist and walked forward, and the long knife with the scabbard was raised high, and he was about to fight.

Seeing this, the soldiers on the left and right also raised their swords and moved forward.

When this scholar saw that the military man was about to beat him, he was not afraid, took a step forward, and said: "I am a son of Suzhou, even the king of Yan is not allowed to beat and scold, you dare to beat me." ”

Before the words came out, the long knife had already been smashed, and his head was broken and bleeding, so he heard the words scolding: "It's you dog who doesn't know how to be respectful and inferior, and speaks wildly." ”

A few words, a few smashes, and then the ground rolled and wailed.

The hundreds of scholars present looked at each other and unconsciously took a few steps back, no one thought that the soldiers in this government would say that they would fight. It was this scabbard that came down, and the blood flowed like a pour.

At this time, a person had already come out of the door, and after seeing the scene, he said, "Stop!" ”

When the military man heard this, he looked back and saw that Li Gang had come out. Hurriedly stopped, stood a few steps back, and stood behind Li Gang.

The Suzhou Juzi on the ground, who was covered in blood, was still wailing just now, and at this time, he saw Li Gang in a red official robe come out, and hurriedly got up again, pointed at Li Gang and roared: "Li Gang, I came here at the test of King Yan, how dare you bully the people of the world like this." is not afraid of King Yan's blame. Today thou hast set thy arms against me, and thou hast beaten me. Tomorrow, let's see what you use to block the mouths of the world, but look at what kind of reputation this Yan King will be! ”

There are always people who think so highly of themselves, the literati are light, and they are high-flying and domineering.

When Li Gang heard this, he frowned, and slowly spoke: "You can't take the Jinshi exam in Tokyo, and you can't take the subordinate officer exam in Hejian." I have been reading poetry and books in vain for so many years, but I am still splashing and rolling here. What is the difference with a street shrew? If you don't have the ability, you want to get an official position by sprinkling, what is the difference between the children crying on the street? ”

It was Li Gang who said that the scholar's face turned pale, and he said: "The original Yan King has a thirst for talent, and this time it seems that this Yan King is no more than Erer." Li Gang, you are an official under the Yan Wangfu, and you are just a person who deceives the world and steals fame. There are hundreds of scholars present, answering today's question, which one doesn't feel insulting? Today's events will depend on how this Yan Wangfu will be laughed at by the people of the world in the future. ”